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by qgin 2mo ago
Does anyone remember their crazy Ovaltine-decoder-ring two factor auth that they had for a while? They mailed you a physical card with custom grid of numbers and letters and the login challenge would be to submit the letters an numbers at v
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by qgin 2mo ago
We’re reaching transvestigation levels of people trying to spot AI text everywhere they look
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by qgin 2mo ago
Markets don’t always need an external change to drop. Sometimes it’s just part of the same price discovery process that ran the price up early on.
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by qgin 2mo ago
Extremely hard to predict what the world of careers will look like to someone starting out 20 years from now.
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by qgin 2mo ago
Make it easier to sell ice cream. Make it harder to trap people in subscriptions with not viable way to cancel.
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by qgin 3mo ago
There is this new thing where people love to show off their sophistication that they can "spot AI". Every time they see an a Claudeism, every time they see an emdash, they talk about how they feel sick to their stomach and are rea
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by qgin 3mo ago
Absolutely, but it was claims about ultrasound in general
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by qgin 3mo ago
There were a lot of people who declared very loudly last week during the Midjourney discourse that this was an impossible use of ultrasound.
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by qgin 5mo ago
People hunting for AI text is reaching transvestigation levels
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by qgin 5mo ago
I'm still remembering the demo from many years ago where a bot would voice call a local business and get information for you and report back.
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by qgin 5mo ago
I think the number of people still holding a grudge for that today is small.
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by qgin 5mo ago
"Everyone will not just"
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by qgin 6mo ago
I don’t think this discussion is complete without mentioning Trump, if not as an outright cause, at least a symbol and a symptom. The level of toxicity and cynicism and nihilism that has been brought to the foreground every day is really so
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by qgin 6mo ago
The idea of kids being a get-out-of-jail-free card to happiness and existential turmoil has never made sense to me. Kids are wonderful, but not because they’re not a magical gateway to happiness.
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by qgin 6mo ago
We’ve seen an incredibly powerful technology follow multiple exponential curves in its capability, but we’re supposed to ask why we’re telling ourselves “stories” if we think about what will happen if that technology continues to follow the
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by qgin 6mo ago
How long could a public figure have a hidden address? It doesn't seem practical.
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by qgin 7mo ago
I wanted one of these so much.
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by qgin 7mo ago
It's not really about which one matters. They all matter. But here is a rough breakdown of global fossil fuel energy usage: * Electricity: 27% * Industry: 24% * Transportation: 15% * Agriculture & land use: 11% * Buildings: 7% Then
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by qgin 7mo ago
All data centers in aggregate (AI and all other uses) use about 1.5% of electricity production, which itself is about 20% of total energy use. So when people are focusing on AI above all other energy uses, it doesn't really paint an ac
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by qgin 7mo ago
So they're essentially admitting they want to use Claude to mass surveil Americans and/or build autonomous weapons with no humans in the loop. Kind of nuts.
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by qgin 7mo ago
It's also important to remember that future, much more powerful Claudes will read about how these events play out and learn lessons about Anthropic and whether it can be trusted. It's not crazy to think that models that learn that
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by qgin 7mo ago
I'm unclear what insider trading means in the context of crypto. Inside what?
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by qgin 8mo ago
The most interesting thing about this is that the underlying economy is actually stronger than people realize. The narrative has been that AI data center construction was propping up an otherwise weak economy. If this analysis is true, then
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by qgin 8mo ago
Everyone knows someone who worked for years on a project only for it to go nowhere. Pour years into a business that failed. Spend years getting a degree that was useless. Effort might be a part of many people's success stories, but it&
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by qgin 8mo ago
Has the world ever rewarded effort?
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by qgin 8mo ago
This may mean the centaur era will be shorter than expected. If we take as a given that: * AI is doing real work * Humans using AI don't seem to get more done with AI than without There is a huge economic pressure to remove humans and
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by qgin 8mo ago
I don’t know if we can assume that humans will always be a value add. It’s very possible that for many thing in the medium term, putting humans in the loop will be a net negative on productivity.
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by qgin 8mo ago
At some point soon, humans will be a liability, slowing AI down, introducing mistakes and inefficiences. Any company that insists on inserting humans into the loop will be outcompeted by those who just let the AI go.
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by qgin 8mo ago
There would be a lot of economic pressure to figure it out. Amazon fulfillment centers are a good example of automation shrinking the role of humans. We haven't seen total headcounts go down because Amazon itself has been growing. Whil
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by qgin 8mo ago
You don't need AI to replace whole jobs 1:1 to have massive displacement. If AI can do 80% of your tasks but fails miserably on the remaining 20%, that doesn't mean your job is safe. It means that 80% of the people in your departm

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